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this book. >> how did you meet steve forbes? >> i met him many years ago at an event that i did when i was at the university of southern california. and one thing led to another. i moved to new york, back to new york. i should i'm from new york and started working of course. so elizabeth ames, your practical express prior to working at forbes, how do you inject that into a capitalism will say the? >> basically i've learned a lot since forbes. when i was at forbes i learned a lot about markets. and again i was a journalist. i began as a journalist and i worked at business week many years ago as a journalist, but when i started to work as an entrepreneur, i learned about the fact that you really need to have economic freedom is to create jobs. and it's something i learned personally. and if you're just getting a paycheck you really don't understand how government can affect a small business and job creation. i experienced that firsthand. so that was one of the things that led me to think that this would be a useful idea for a book
this book. >> how did you meet steve forbes? >> i met him many years ago at an event that i did when i was at the university of southern california. and one thing led to another. i moved to new york, back to new york. i should i'm from new york and started working of course. so elizabeth ames, your practical express prior to working at forbes, how do you inject that into a capitalism will say the? >> basically i've learned a lot since forbes. when i was at forbes i learned a...
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you talked about steve jobs. he did the same thing when he was building the things, took the jobs out to the china, and that is the competition we have with china. that is how we can give them ideas, but at least either some kind of a taxation or something that if they take it from us, they lose something. that's the most difficult part of entrepreneurship, still, my idea, still good. >> your question is how can we keep mass production here when the cost advantages of tremendous in places like china. one fact, though, is that labor costs an are only about 10% of a product cost. there's a lot more that goes into it. it's also the subsidies that the chinese government is giving when they give free land, free rent. it is the currency issues, but, you know, there are several encouraging signs. one, wages are rising in china, slowly, transportation costs and fuel costs increased with the natural gas in the united states, some of the manufacturing costs and some of the alternative energy manufacturing costs are coming
you talked about steve jobs. he did the same thing when he was building the things, took the jobs out to the china, and that is the competition we have with china. that is how we can give them ideas, but at least either some kind of a taxation or something that if they take it from us, they lose something. that's the most difficult part of entrepreneurship, still, my idea, still good. >> your question is how can we keep mass production here when the cost advantages of tremendous in places...
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>> host: steve in south dakota. good afternoon from miami. go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: good afternoon. yes, yes. hello, brad. i love brad meltzer's decoded, and i want to -- >> guest: must be a relative. >> caller: no, actually i'm not. i just saw you on booktv and recognized you from your other show, and paid attention, and got a chance to talk to you. i have a suggestion for your next book. >> guest: i'm ready. >> caller: okay, heroes for -- more heroes for my children. keep it up. i love it. i'm looking at your books for my grandchildren. >> guest: i appreciate that. grandmothers are our best customers,'ll tell you trust me, i recently went -- if you want to know what the next book into be for me, i recently spent time with the uso. i just got back from a uso tour across kuwait, undisclosed military locations, spending ten days in four countries on eight military bases entertaining the troops, and if you want to find the real heroes, the ones i would include in another book, it was the men and women in the military,
>> host: steve in south dakota. good afternoon from miami. go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: good afternoon. yes, yes. hello, brad. i love brad meltzer's decoded, and i want to -- >> guest: must be a relative. >> caller: no, actually i'm not. i just saw you on booktv and recognized you from your other show, and paid attention, and got a chance to talk to you. i have a suggestion for your next book. >> guest: i'm ready. >> caller: okay, heroes...
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all of the staff, mary rose and bill and lori, steve and sharon in the library. it is a great team working here. i am very grateful to all of them. getting back to the system, caroline mentioned playing in the desk. it was exactly in the space underneath the desk, the and the whole system was in there next to the knee hole. decades later, it was described where the microphones were. >> if i could interrupt, the agent had bestial service in the secret service. it made this assignment interesting. >> his job was to protect president kennedy from electronic surveillance. [laughter] so he was trying to keep the outside world from listening in, but he was tapped to help president kennedy listen in on his own conversations. >> it was 22 years before 1984. >> that's right, one microphone was in the knee hole and the other one was in the cabinet room not far from the oval office. there were some drapes, and he put a couple of microphones in the drapes. in his oral history he mentions that he put microphones in the residence. >> the other question that this naturally occu
all of the staff, mary rose and bill and lori, steve and sharon in the library. it is a great team working here. i am very grateful to all of them. getting back to the system, caroline mentioned playing in the desk. it was exactly in the space underneath the desk, the and the whole system was in there next to the knee hole. decades later, it was described where the microphones were. >> if i could interrupt, the agent had bestial service in the secret service. it made this assignment...
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this move to michelle ng obama's father's side of the family, michelle obama's and and this is steve johnson, the first lady's great-grandmother who traveled to four cities, she was a sharecropper's daughter born in 1879 and somewhere along the way she decided she did not want anything to do with the farming life and she was one of the first of michele obama's and sisters to set site on chicago in 1908. this is her husband who was a minister who also lived in chicago. this is the first lady's great great grandmother, and she arrived in illinois some time in the 1860s. the first lady describes herself as a south side girl but the family had no idea their roots in illinois go that far back. if you look at mary, you will understand why the family story says she was part cherokee. she obviously has a mixed lineage but i was never able to establish for sure whether that was true. this is the first lady's grandfather, a mislabeled slide, who left south carolina and arrive in chicago around 1931. this is millvinia, the owner of millvinia's brother. this is a photo, this is an amazing coat,
this move to michelle ng obama's father's side of the family, michelle obama's and and this is steve johnson, the first lady's great-grandmother who traveled to four cities, she was a sharecropper's daughter born in 1879 and somewhere along the way she decided she did not want anything to do with the farming life and she was one of the first of michele obama's and sisters to set site on chicago in 1908. this is her husband who was a minister who also lived in chicago. this is the first lady's...
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jimmy is one of my favorite confidence men because teammate steve martin of a villain. i wonder as you look on the scene today how do you assess president obama as a confidence man and a panoply of confidence men, and not to put a fly in the ointment but how do you assess that from me as a confidence man? >> why don't know. we are going to work this side of the street and work - they said my daughter you are soberly and that funny and smart why don't you run for president? i don't have it in me. at the end of the george bush was trying to go and at the end of the day i was free to shoot myself. [laughter] so there are these people in the system that spend that spend their whole life doing press and their politicians and once in a widely public servant has the capacity to be a public servant and there's time left over at the end of the day between lobbying and banking to take care of the country. and as milton friedman said, we just don't have the time to bone up on the people trying to rob us through the x corporation and rob us through the light union and the people ge
jimmy is one of my favorite confidence men because teammate steve martin of a villain. i wonder as you look on the scene today how do you assess president obama as a confidence man and a panoply of confidence men, and not to put a fly in the ointment but how do you assess that from me as a confidence man? >> why don't know. we are going to work this side of the street and work - they said my daughter you are soberly and that funny and smart why don't you run for president? i don't have it...
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he refused steve cutler was a mad and, that hitler didn't care about the german people, that hitler had other fears that drove him. he believed there would be a rational actor. he told the leader of the zionist community in the first president of israel, he said i'm going to go meet with him, work it out. it became so it anti-churchill, anti-british, antiwar effort that the british opened a file on him, which i founded the national national archives in britain called the candidate and a fine. and in the german archives, there are records of his conversation with the german diplomats wanting to get to berlin to negotiate an end to the war and to negotiate a settlement that would prevent war and i would rescue the jewish refugees. again, not for the first time he had gone from being an insider to the outside. he returned to this country in disgrace. he supported roosevelt for reelection in 1940, which is all roosevelt wanted the way roosevelt did not fire as he should have. he retired and got an interview through the battle of. anybody we give to britain is wasted, turn away. and then, sh
he refused steve cutler was a mad and, that hitler didn't care about the german people, that hitler had other fears that drove him. he believed there would be a rational actor. he told the leader of the zionist community in the first president of israel, he said i'm going to go meet with him, work it out. it became so it anti-churchill, anti-british, antiwar effort that the british opened a file on him, which i founded the national national archives in britain called the candidate and a fine....
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published in 2010 followed by bill o'reilly's killing lincoln, heaven is for real, walter isaacson's steve jobs, number 4 published in 2011, wild, derek larsson in the garden of beasts, another 2011 title, power of habit, edward klein's at the aging, tina fay's bossy pants, and american sniper was published in january and that was on the list for 17 weeks. sarah weinman, what is wild? >> that was an amazing memoir by a woman who had previously written a novel called for ridge . she described as-she decided on a whim that she would walk the pacific coast, well over a thousand miles and did so with minimal preparation and describe the essentially how doing this long distance walk broke her apart and put her back together again. the big reason why this book was on the best-seller list for so long even though there had been a great deal of attempts, i read it a couple months before publication and certainly understood all the advance height, oprah winfrey decided to revive her book club. she may not have a nationally syndicated show anymore but she does have the oprah winfrey network and her m
published in 2010 followed by bill o'reilly's killing lincoln, heaven is for real, walter isaacson's steve jobs, number 4 published in 2011, wild, derek larsson in the garden of beasts, another 2011 title, power of habit, edward klein's at the aging, tina fay's bossy pants, and american sniper was published in january and that was on the list for 17 weeks. sarah weinman, what is wild? >> that was an amazing memoir by a woman who had previously written a novel called for ridge . she...
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he ran into steve keever, a young man he talked to the day before at the ever loving trading post. it is strong compact body with his long blond hair and beard looks like gore. i just wanted to touch that, not his hair. he had enormous open-heart. he has to sailors he found out whether he was looking for. he said no, so invited mccarthy for christmas dinner as communal house that evening. when he showed up in 1815 oak street, headquarters at the good earth commune instantly felt he was stepping into a stream of what the haight was supposed to be. you're in a three-story victorian is beautifully kept with shiny oiled wooden floors and heavy velvet curtains. a high ceiling dining room is dominated by huge table that looks like it was constructed with ray road ties and bolted together. a table was filled with platters of food, rose to a winter vegetables mashed potatoes and the room is filling up with people, men, women, babies of all races, white, black, brown, yellow, red. or if he stood quietly in the chaos and took it all in. he knew he'd come home. the good earth commune with ess
he ran into steve keever, a young man he talked to the day before at the ever loving trading post. it is strong compact body with his long blond hair and beard looks like gore. i just wanted to touch that, not his hair. he had enormous open-heart. he has to sailors he found out whether he was looking for. he said no, so invited mccarthy for christmas dinner as communal house that evening. when he showed up in 1815 oak street, headquarters at the good earth commune instantly felt he was stepping...
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and steve jobs, number four, publishedded in 2011. harold stayed. another 2011 title. the power of habit. edward klein, the amateur. tina fey, and american sniper was published in january, and that was on the list for 17 weeks. sarah weinman, what is "wild"? >> guest: a really amazing memoir by a woman who had previously written a novel called "torch. toy toy and she disguised in retrospect how in her mid-20s, after a failed marriage and herma had died, there had been in drug issues, she decided, on essentially a whim, she would walk the pacific coast trail, which is well over a thousand miles, and she did so with minimal preparations and she described essentially how doing this long distance walk broke her apart and put her back together again. the big reason why the book was on the bestseller list for so long, even though there had been a great deal of -- i read it before publication, and certainly understood all the advance hype -- is that oprah win free started her new book club. she has the oprah winfrey network, and the magazine, so when she chose it as the first
and steve jobs, number four, publishedded in 2011. harold stayed. another 2011 title. the power of habit. edward klein, the amateur. tina fey, and american sniper was published in january, and that was on the list for 17 weeks. sarah weinman, what is "wild"? >> guest: a really amazing memoir by a woman who had previously written a novel called "torch. toy toy and she disguised in retrospect how in her mid-20s, after a failed marriage and herma had died, there had been in...
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. >> i am steve smith, navy 79. we just graduated as a last the last class of the new academy. i am proud of not only my daughter but all the people who followed and her footsteps of the naval academy. [applause] where did the matt freeman foundation go when we got out of -- [inaudible] >> we have an educational theme and at this point it's in any war-torn country. we have people that have started in djibouti and some of the areas over there and we hope to be able to get into other countries as we expand. we really just started a few years ago and the requests are starting to come in more from individuals. we also have large shipments at go to our humanitarian warehouses over there. each one of them is packed with information about matthew and the project and where it came from. i have wonderful pictures of principals in the schools over there holding mattheus pictures saying, someday we would like to meet this woman because we would like to thank her for the tools for our children. so most of it has been local. it started our biggest launch and went into gulfport high school w
. >> i am steve smith, navy 79. we just graduated as a last the last class of the new academy. i am proud of not only my daughter but all the people who followed and her footsteps of the naval academy. [applause] where did the matt freeman foundation go when we got out of -- [inaudible] >> we have an educational theme and at this point it's in any war-torn country. we have people that have started in djibouti and some of the areas over there and we hope to be able to get into other...
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and, of course, in the memoirs, he was only able to use a signal fraction of the tapes, and i asked steve, head of the library, and it may have been jim at the time, is this public domain? yes. can i use it? yes. as a result, bud was speaking to me every day literally. it was a lucky find. now future generations can use it and some of the personality sketches, made great use of it, intelligence service, all of that is in there, and, particularly, some of the notes on who used the sources and how he infiltrated in, that's all from the tapes. that was the main source of data, the personal papers were a main source of data. the family papers a source of data, and i used the declassified and unclassified documents that are in the history center. getting access i need, i leave that to the next generation. any other questions? i think there was one more. okay. that's a good sign. maybe i answered them all or maybe you want to go back to the bar. on that, thank you, all, it's been a real honor to be here, enjoy the book. every author -- i were the day six years ago when i started this project. e
and, of course, in the memoirs, he was only able to use a signal fraction of the tapes, and i asked steve, head of the library, and it may have been jim at the time, is this public domain? yes. can i use it? yes. as a result, bud was speaking to me every day literally. it was a lucky find. now future generations can use it and some of the personality sketches, made great use of it, intelligence service, all of that is in there, and, particularly, some of the notes on who used the sources and...
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and extreme leader steve jobs, for example, might be the one person. if you're the voter and you think the united is in a crisis, and the system has failed and the people who choosing normally cannot get us out clearly had. you want to gamble. the system isn't working anymore. it's time break. and you can't get a worse outcome than total failure than bankruptcy and civil war. so that's one thing. the second i think there are anythings you do if you choose to take an extreme. you should reshape the job. you should never have an outside ceo the chairman and board of directors. there's no circumstances there's a good idea. .. and change course when they're wrong, but were everyone else always been the fair rate. so i think the key if you look at lincoln and judith folkman, an extraordinary scientt
and extreme leader steve jobs, for example, might be the one person. if you're the voter and you think the united is in a crisis, and the system has failed and the people who choosing normally cannot get us out clearly had. you want to gamble. the system isn't working anymore. it's time break. and you can't get a worse outcome than total failure than bankruptcy and civil war. so that's one thing. the second i think there are anythings you do if you choose to take an extreme. you should reshape...